Pocket hand-brush



(No Model.)

0. B. SOHROEDER.

POCKET HAND BRUSH.

No. 372,492. Patented Nov. 1, 1887 @gmssh i INVENTOR @QJQQ BY M ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES B. SGHROEDER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

POCKET. HAND-BRUSH.

$PECIEICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,492, dated November 1, 1887.

Application filed December 7, 1886. Serial No. 220,893. (No model.)

To (LZZ 207mm it may concern:

Beitknown that 1, CHARLES E. SoHRoEDnR,

' of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Pocket Hand-Brush, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to furnish in compact and portable form a combined clothes and hat brush which is simple in construction and can be quickly adjusted for its various uses. The invention consists in the construction of parts and details, as hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of my pocket-brush adjusted as a clothes and hat brush, part being broken out. Fig. 2is a longitudinal sectional view of the same on the line or or, Fig.1. Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view on the line y y, Fig. 1. I

A is a hollow case, of flat oblong form, the opposite sides of which are provided with soft stuifed pads 13, of plush, velvet, or other material suitable for forming a silkhat brush. The pads are held in place by bands 0, encircling the ends of the case A.

A clothes and felt-hat brush, D, is carried by a block, E, fitted to slide within the case A, and guided in its movement by pins F F, projecting from the ends of the block and riding in longitudinal slots G Gin the sides of the case.

In the present instance the longitudinal slots G G are formed by making the case in two half-sections secured together in any suitable manner so as to leave a slight distance between the parallel edges, between which the guide-pins F ride, as above stated. To the projecting ends of the opposite pins F are attached buttons II, by means of which the brush D is drawn out for use or retracted within the ease,and to further guide the brushblock in its movement these buttons fit and ride upon parallel guides I, attached to the case at the sides of the slots G.

A flat brush, K, is carried by a block or plate, L, fitted to slide 'within the case, and provided with end guide-pins, F, which ride in thelongitudinal slots G.

Buttons 11 are provided on the ends of the pins F, by which the brush K is adjusted similarly to the brush D, and which also ride on the guides I.

Stops L are provided at suitable points in the guide-slots G to properly limit the travel of the brush blocks.

A compact and extremely portable article is thus formed when the sliding brushes are retracted within the case, and either or both of the said brushes may be drawn out for use when desired, the case then forming the handle.

Various other styles of brushes may be sub stituted for those shown and described as sliding within the hollow case.

I will generally mount a small mirror, M, in the back of the brush K, as shown in the drawings, to further increase the utility of the article.

Having thus fully described my invention, whatI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A pocket hand-brush consisting ofa hollow ease provided with a silk-hat pad or pads and two brushes of different styles sliding in opposite ends of the hollow case, substantially as shown and described.

CHAS. B. SCHROEDER.

\Vitnesses:

CLARENCE L. BURGER, EDGAR TATE. 

